Open your bibles to Galatians 5. Summer is drawing to a close. How many fall people do we have in here? Who is a summer person. I’ll be honest; I’m going to miss summer. Warm weather, cookouts, swimming pools, driving with the windows down. As you can tell by my...

Suppose you received an invitation to a party thrown by a well-known and respected host. The invitation contains all of the details about the party: the host, the location, and how to get to the venue. Now, suppose you have a prior commitment and can’t make it....

Have you ever made excuses for something that you knew you should do, but you just didn’t want to? “I really should work out more, but I’m not going to stick with it anyway, so why bother?” “I should share my faith more, but no one likes...

In the introduction to his epistle, James’ brother Jude tells his readers, “although I was very eager to write you about our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing you to contend for the faith that was once and for all delivered to the...

“I was raised Christian.” You’d be surprised how many times I hear this one. I hear it from Christian friends and non-Christian friends alike. “I was raised Christian.” Sometimes, they say something slightly different, like, “I...

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past 24 hours, you’ve realized that there have a lot of people standing up for what they believe in, whether that be on Facebook, on the news, in the blogosphere, or (heaven forbid) in real life. The...